On The Deficiency And Cultivation Of Sense Of Justice In The Contemporary Society

The problem of sense of justice is an important aspect of the research on the theory of justice. From the angle of institutional ethics to approach the deficiency and cultivation of sense of justice in the contemporary society of China has very important meanings for building the orderly morality, maintaining the steady society and realizing the social justice. This essay is divided into three parts:Part one An approach on the connotation, features and functions of sense of justice. In modern democratic society the sense of justice is the social members' respect for the idea of justice, the principle of justice and the just institutions as well their sentimental experiences that emerge from maintaining the just institutions and doing just behaviors, also it is an ability of the social members to take effective act according to the principle of justice. The sense of justice has three features: from its formation it unifies the own cognition and the common cognition, from its ultimate end it integrates self-care with others-care, from its power of restraint it unites self-restraint and others-restraint. The sense of justice has interior and exterior functions. Its interior functions to the individual lie in modulating and adjusting the individual concept of value and actuating the individual to seek interest in a rational way. Its exterior functions to the public life show to build and improve the just institutions, promote the social cooperation and maintain the social order.Part Two The description of deficient present situation of sense of justice in the contemporary society of China and an inquiring into the cause. In the contemporary social life of China the social members want sense of justice in their deep hearts. Its primary manifestation is that the value orientation of individual utility is relatively projecting but the individual pursuit is despised and the desire for handing after justice differs from the behavior of practicing justice and many unjustbehaviors generally exist in every field of the society. Approaching its grounds there are primarily some points: the conception of justice is vague in the transformation of society and people have difficulty in generating the common cognition of justice and there is a insipid and profitable tendency towards feelings of human association and some institutions are unjust and the mechanisms of social control such as education, reward and punishment and public opinion are week.Part Three An approach on the necessity and probability and an analyses of influential factors and ways of cultivation of sense of justice in the contemporary society of China. The cultivation of sense of justice is necessary because that the sense of justice has important meanings and particular functions to the individual and the society and it isn't inherent but is the result form the social study and cultivation and it isn't liable to keep but to intensify. The cultivation of sense of justice is probable because that it is means of reaching individual rational purposes and it expresses our desires as moral persons and everyone all want a well-ordered society. The influential factors of the cultivation of sense of justice have individual interior factors and social exterior factors. The former are the factors of individual interior psychology of morality and the factors of individual practical activity of morality. The latter are whether the principle of justice self is true, clear and attractive, how the government's attitude towards the problem of justice is and whether the social circumstance of morality is good or bad. The cultivation of sense of justice should develop from the individual dimension at microscopic level and the social dimension at macroscopic level at the same time.